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It is a fact and not a wind up her name was really Mary, Carl Chinn interviewed them both quite often when he had his afternoon show on WM.Cant for the life of me remember the mans christian name.The George was a lock up pub and no living accomodation so they lived in Stephenson Tower which was...

Yes it was the Royal George.It lay back from the road and there was a filling station next door and dead opposite was the Bull Ring Tavern. At some point I think the licensee was a Mr Christmas and his wife Mary, when the George closed they took over the Ben Johnson.

Yes Johhny sadly died in 2006 and the Travellers Rest had been bulldozed by that time to make way for the Northfield bypass.I remember Johnny hitting the Tilton Rd crossbar with a shot of such ferocity it bounced back to the halfway line before it landed.

Warhurst's scrap yard still on Holborn Hill

I remember Frank Moss, ex Villa, he had a newsagents and general seaside holiday shop in East Looe. He would always be in the shop in the morning and early evening but the afternoons were reserved for golf when his wife would be in the shop. Sometimes used to see him at night with his dad in one...

I think you are thinking of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPLHOOtlcnM Night Mail......enjoy:)

Just found a couple of pics of a fire which I think was in Lower Tower St, it was Wm.Corbetts storage area and pic were taken on a Friday afternoon in the summer of 1966 or 67. I just wondered who else may recall this fire,.

Second pic seems to be overlooking Salford park as it looks like the expressway, spaghetti junction and the M6 can be seen. Just a thought.

This is a strange one in Northfield, although it has been blurred out the sign says "The Darkies" not sure where that came from.:shocked:

Title was " My Happiness" and done by Connie Francis later also.

The reason for this is when the estate was built the developers, who were also the leaseholders were First National Housing Trust, based in Sheffield.

That is interesting that the Express's may have run that way but as you state if they avoided New St. the pathing could have been via the Camp Hill line. I may have missed seeing these as I very rarely spotted at KN, was usually in the field at Tamworth on Saturdays and then I had converted to...

I dont think that was the route taken, when I used to see it it ran along what is now called the Cross City line from New St.Had it ran through Camp Hill it would have been on what was then used as a freight line. My late brother had pictures taken at Kings Norton station in the 1960's of the PE...

I remember when I used to be going back to Cotteridge Infants school after lunchtime I used to wait on the bridge that leads into Cotteridge park for the "Pines Express" to pass through. From memory it was always around 13:20 when it appeared. It as has been said usually a Black 5 but I thought...

There are still some of these DMU's in preservation see link to the South Devon railway their recently restored railcar is featured. https://www.sdronline.org.uk/Summer-Diesel-Gala.php

Rob, when I knew your father I think he was a leading hand which was a sort of a step up to chargehand.I remember him as a very helpful man as I was only an apprentice when we worked together and I certainly picked up some tips off him. I do recall that he was very worried at the time of the...

I worked with a John Scott for a while in D dept. in the early 60's. It was in the old part of D Dept. on the first floor which was more or less a small machine shop with shapers and millers and a few bench hands.There is a way of finding if the man I worked with was your father. the John Scott...

I asked my father in law Friday if he had heard of a Duke Quebec in Summer Lane or town in general and he cant recall such a name. Marquis of Lorne was on a corner and postal address was I think Cecil Street.

My father was a bus driver on the Outer Circle route based at Selly Oak depot during the war. I remember a book I saw after he died that my mother was going to dump.So after a rummage in the loft I have found the very same book.

Link for loco movements, this gets updated quite often. https://www.uksteam.info/tours/lem10.htm#twk